Council Candidate Kallos Picks Up DC 1707 Endorsement

UPPER EAST SIDE – City council candidate Ben Kallos capped a busy week with the endorsement of DC 1707 AFSCME, a 25,000-member strong social service worker local.

“Ben Kallos knows that every child needs early education to lay the groundwork for a life of equal opportunity,” said DC 1707’s executive director Raglan George, Jr. in a statement.

“In my district, there are not enough seats at the free Pre-K programs for the families that need them – and I will work tirelessly to change that,” Kallos said in a statement. “The confidence of this city’s daycare workers in our fight to expand education is invaluable to my campaign.”

The news led the women’s rights group NOW-NYC to endorsement Kallos last week.

NOW-NYC is committed to fighting our culture of sexual harassment and promoting gender equality in politics by championing feminist candidates like Ben Kallos,” NOW-NYC’s president Sonia Ossorio said in a statement.

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